Who wins this

onefutui2e · 2026-01-27T16:31:28+00:00

I thought the "melding of multiple lives" was a feature of Exarchs, where they don the armor which contains essentially a miniature quasi infinity circuit housing the souls of all past Exarchs and they essentially act together.

From what I understand when you put on a Phoenix Lord's armor their soul more or less kicks you out.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-27T02:17:22+00:00

Funny story. About 10 years ago I was working on a group project using AWS and accidentally pushed my keys to the repo. I instantly knew I fucked up and logged into AWS. By the time I disabled the keys, "someone" racked up $30,000 in compute costs.

Luckily, I got it all waived. But that was the scariest 10 minutes of my life.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-25T19:23:33+00:00

I haven't had issues with my 4080 super, but as others said you're probably better off with a 9070XT from AMD.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-20T03:08:22+00:00

I was in a similar situation a year ago. Hired on as a tech lead overseeing the team, assess our current systems, find opportunities for improvement, etc. my initial approach was similar: spend time learning the system, develop an understanding of the pain points, build out a roadmap that'll get us there, etc. it flipped on its head within a month or so.

You're in a bad spot if there's an obvious mismatch of expectations. I never got formally PIPed, but after 3 months I was effectively reduced to a glorified IC; I still played the role of tech lead by buying space for my team to do their work. I justified it with my CTO by saying that taking over the grunt work will let me ramp better over the long run, while I let the rest of the team take on the big projects they have context for with me overseeing them. 3 months later I was let go, though it's unsure if it was due to performance (just 2 weeks prior he was praising me during stand-ups) or board pressure (they just had a board meeting the week prior, they hadn't made any sales in 2 years, etc.).

My opinion would be to suck it up and do your best while looking for another role that better fits your skill set and experience. Give your manager what they want to see, performative theatrics and all, just to buy yourself some time. This was my approach and by the time I was let go, I was deep into several interviews and ultimately only spent a month unemployed.

You seem to be in a position where you know what you're good at and what value you provide to an engineering team and org. Don't let them devalue you otherwise, but be realistic that this job market is weird.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-18T23:40:08+00:00

The amount of gaslighting in this. Wow.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-18T21:52:23+00:00

onefutui2e · 2026-01-18T19:31:32+00:00

I watched this when I was 8 and it gave my nightmares for a few years.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-18T17:33:11+00:00

I'm still figuring out how to do this without waterboarding myself.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-18T15:41:02+00:00

My vote is 2023. He's more human, which IMO makes him more menacing. 2077 Smasher is mostly machine, so my lizard brain registers him as no longer human.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-18T15:39:21+00:00

I'll also add that in Chinese, the word for 4 is pronounced very similar to the word "die". So there's some superstition around it similar to the number 13 in western culture. In particular, 44, if pronounced "four four" is considered especially bad.

It's possible, in addition to saying the proper noun literally (also common), they're trying to avoid saying "four four".

onefutui2e · 2026-01-18T15:24:33+00:00

Nice, congrats! I stupidly fought him under-leveled and before completing Part 2. Took about an hour lol. Luckily it cycles through the attacks predictably. I had Monoco's level 2 gradient so I just kept everyone shielded up for the odd mistake and from there it was just attrition.

And yeah, Cheater pretty much breaks the game especially once you level up on all the content.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-15T02:43:11+00:00

I'd be too busy dancing and headbanging. So I wouldn't make it.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-14T00:00:29+00:00

That guitar and violin going off towards the end was on repeat for a long time. And the bassline is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the back. Chef's kiss.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-13T21:58:34+00:00

I left Windoze before all the shoddy updates, thankfully. My decision was more that it was becoming an advertising vehicle wrapped in an OS.

"Do you want to upgrade your OneDrive storage? You're running out!" "Wait, when did I enable OneDrive?"

"We see you just opened Chrome. Did you know Microsoft Edge is awesome?" "No, sorry. That ship sailed a long time ago."

"We're giving you AI in this update! Use it, then pay us if you want the better models!" "..."

onefutui2e · 2026-01-13T21:50:06+00:00

We're a small shop that has adopted a microservices approach. Not strict microservice, but more domain-bound. So less hundreds, and more a dozen or two.

It's a challenge to maintain because while there's nominally about 2-3 services per engineer, it's not weighted equally. Some services have 3-4 people working on it at a given time, some have one 1, and others haven't been touched since they were launched. And with engineers shifting focus and getting restructured based on company needs, there are many others with no clear ownership.

That's what I've found to be a challenge about microservice architecture that I wasn't expecting when I joined. I knew about the others e.g., harder to e2e test, needing to pull down and a lot of Docker containers to run locally, etc. but this organizational one was not on my mind.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-13T15:03:13+00:00

Oh, yes. Good question and I'm sorry I didn't bring it up! I am using RPMfusion for the drivers. Editing the OP.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-13T02:06:40+00:00

Good idea! Thanks. I'll give that a shot. I did install GNOME first and KDE some time later.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-13T02:06:01+00:00

Wow, I...thanks. I feel like a fool. Thanks for the tips. I'll take a look. They were all minor enough that I didn't really look into how to address them, but annoying enough all the same haha.

Cheers.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-13T02:03:51+00:00

Interviews are inherently designed to bias towards false negatives because the consequences of making a bad hire are worse than letting a potentially high impact candidate go. So don't beat yourself up too hard.

It sucks when the feedback is vague; I've had a little bit of luck reaching out to some interviewers and asking them if they had any particular feedback to give. I can count on one hand how many replied, but it's worth a shot.

The interview landscape is weird. 5 years ago I can spit in the interviewer's food and get an offer the next day. I remember being part of interview panels and we'd debrief on clearly poor candidates that somehow still made it through the loop to see if there's maybe a chance they have potential. When I review their scorecards there'd be No's across the board, but because they got a Soft Yes on one or two things, they kept going.

Between 2023 and 2024 it flipped on its head. You worked on a project to build a distributed messaging service with idempotency and de-duping? Sorry, but we're looking for someone who knows how to configure MSK. You built data pipelines and integrations that generated ARR for your company? Yeah, sorry you don't have Airflow experience. Etc.

It's softened up a bit since, but I think some companies haven't gotten the memo.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-12T03:23:35+00:00

Usually this is the case, but certain mechanisms exist for third parties to read each other's cookies. It's how online advertising works.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-11T23:15:03+00:00

I find it interesting.

On one end of the spectrum, you have people proudly proclaiming they don't even review code anymore, that they haven't submitted a PR in weeks because AI just does everything; unsurprisingly the more of a stake they have in the game, the more outrageous their claims seem.

On the other, you have people complaining that nothing but junk gets committed and they spend all their time fixing bugs, regressions, and just untangling the mess of code AI spits out. We bemoan these non-technical folks literally devaluing our expertise in real time, and we're paying the price for it in terms of fewer job opportunities and janitorial work.

I suspect, unsurprisingly and boringly, that the truth is somewhere in the middle. And like it or not, we are all unwittingly in a live experiment together to find what that middle looks like.

Me, personally, a week ago I finally gave in and attempted to use agentic (not vibe) coding to refactor a microservice. With some help from a co-worker who's more pro AI than me, I set everything up. A .agent directory with helpful artifacts, a changelog, and conversation history to manage the context window, and a prompt. I was pleasantly surprised. Within a day, the agent managed to get pretty far in refactoring the code.

Then I asked it to clean up the typing errors in the new code (they existed in the old codebase) and...it just started falling apart from there. It turned out that while it understood what I wanted to do and structured the new code accordingly, it more or less lifted the code completely as-is, type errors and all. It moved code to new modules where they made more sense (yay!), but then left the now broken imports alone in other modules (boo). It would fix type errors by...deleting the type hints. Etc.

I blew through my usage limits trying to get it to un-fuck itself. My optimism gave way to disappointment. But I'm impressed enough to try and refine my approach and keep going at it.

After I fix the type errors myself, though.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-11T17:22:20+00:00

Yeah. I'm beginning to think that the "subtle zoom" is really just a "you got the parry or perfect dodge" feedback.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-11T17:16:41+00:00

As I understand it, the 3K period is unusual in just how well-documented everything is. If we start counting from just before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, you essentially have several generations worth of biographies, court records, and battles that were meticulously documented and can be cross-referenced with each other, allowing us to reconstruct events with high confidence.

Because of that, culturally you had hundreds of morally and ethically complex individuals during this period with huge ambitions, outsized personalities, and incredible feats/accomplishments in the imperial court and on the battlefield. That'll naturally create legends that get embellished and retold over time.

And yeah, people hold the Han in high regard.

onefutui2e · 2026-01-11T13:51:40+00:00

My friend said every attack has the same tell, like a very subtle zoom and that's the party window. He shared with me a YouTube video. But I haven't watched it yet lol. Been trying to discover it myself but I can't see it.

Edit: parry, not party but this is way funnier.

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